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much new and valuable matter.
 Here is hint to ministers A German
 paper says that with funnel of thick ma
 nillA paper about sixteen inches long and
 six to eight inches wide at the mouth, the smaller end being put into the opening of the receiver, one may talk in whispers
 through the telephone.
 The Indian reservations of the United
 States contain ,0O0 square miles, and their population is about two hundred and sixty thousand. Twenty six thousand square miles would locate each family upon a half section of land, leaving surplus ot about
 ITO, 900 square miles, which would produce annually $4,4S0 900. This amount exceeds
 by about S660, ,000 the entire sum appro- priated for the payment of their subsistence and civilization.
 St. Louis paper exults in the 'sfree"
 Sunday enjoyed in that city. The saloons
 are all open on Sunday, the theaters give
 performances and even matinees, the beer
 gardens are thronged and the mails are dis tributed. The paper further boasts that
 there is "less disturbance of the peace'' and
 that sEmore workmen are ready for work
 Monday morning than in cities where their
 Sunday welfare is taken in charge by the law" Doubted.
 The good work goes on. The Long Island railroad company is having steam heating arrangements, similar to those in use on the elevated roads in New York city, put into | number of cars and will speedily satisfy itself as to any doubts there may remain as to the practicability of the plan. The Prov | idence and Bristol road has ordered num- Der of cars fitted up with steam heaters to be
 connected with the engine, and the Staten
 Island road has successfully used the process for some time.
 A Dr. Chuduowski recently experimented | on twelve Russian soldiers with view to discovering the effect of cold applications to | the epigastrium on the rapidity of digestion Each soldier was regaled heartily; his epigas- l trium was properly refrigerated and the ex-
 citing contest began The competitors were | divided into smokers and non smokers The | rival teams digested their very hardest, but | the non smokers outJistanced the others by
 the space of one hour
 1 It is evident that prohibition does not pro- l hibit in Rhode Island, in spite of Chief Con- | stable Braytons cheerful report A petition for the rereal of the law has been sent to the legislature, signed by men representing $3,- | OOO,O worth of taxable property. The | signers say that they voted for the amend ment, but that, in view of it's enforce mont they favor returnino to the 1icense ! system. Another similar petition, signed by
 even larger taxpayers. will be presented to l the legislature before long.
 Boston has had an unsatisfactory expert
 ence in attempting to float $500, 900 of 3 pei l cent. bonds for park improvements, and it is
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$ 6 per Year.
VOL. LV.
9ry 0uuds.
Howe & StGtSOl.

February is the month we of. fer Bargains in Ladies Cotton Underwear, Corsets, Gents Unlaundried Shirts and House keeping Goods.
 We have just received from the best manufacturers in the country several cases Cotton Underwear, made to our order from superior quality Cotton and Trimmings, which we shall sell at a very small margin of profit purposely to keep the de- partment lively during the month of February. Many of the styles are our own ideas and cannot be found elsewhere.
 Corset Covers for I2H, 1o, 25, 371a, AS, SOC and upwards. These covers are perfect shape and are sure to fit.
 Night Robes for $, 50, 69, 75, o2, o8c, $I, 1.I3, I.25, 1.2e, 1.34 $1.5o and upward.
 Chemises for 1o, 25, 38, 50, 63, 75c, $1 and upward.
 Drawers for 1e, 25, 2o, 39, 50, o3, 75, 79c a pair and upward.
 Walking Skirts for 25, 50, 75, 8Sc, $I, $I.25 and upward.
 Misses Night Robes, Che mises and Drawers, in full as- sortment, at the same low prices.
 Infants short and long Dress es, Slips, Bands, Shirts, Flannel Skirts and Embroidered Shawls at our popular prices.
 Unlaundried Shirts for 35, so, 75c and $1. Each of these numbers are GREAT VALUE Purchasers of Shirts will save money by examining these four grades before buying elsewhere. Hamburg and Lace Department.
 Great sale of Hamburg Edges Just received two special drives at SC and 2Hc.
 Bargains in Linen Torchon, Medici, Swiss, Machine Tor chon, Everlasting, Oriental Ma line, Maltese and Fedora Laces. We have just received an inn mense stock of these faces at right prices.
 Corset Department.
 We have the entire sale for the city of the "Sple ndid" Sa- teen Corset, in white, drab, blue and cardinal at soc per pair. Great value for the money.
 Extra value in French Wov en Corsets, in all sizes, at 75 and e8c per pair.
 Best value in Corded Corsets, at 75c pair.
 The popular Dr. Balls Cor sets, in all colors, viz, white, drab, cream, blue, pink, red, &c.
 Thompson's well known makes of Corsets, viz., abdomi- nal, GB, E, C., RH short, rt,young ladies and misses.
 Elegant French Woven Cor sets, 625 bones to a pair, at lowest current rate.
 Children's Waists 50 and 75c a pair.
 Also agent for the city for the well known Equipoise Waists, in all qualities, both closed and laced backs.
 We also keep Madame Foy's Corsets in white and drab.
 The elegant fitting Cutaway Corsets, both in regular length and short hip styles.
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diting a long-neglected letter, and the sweet sense of duty performed will often woo back the reluctant god of dreams. A shelf or two of books above it will not come amiss, especially if they contain half dozen crisp, fresh novels, one or two books of travel and adventure, or an essay from some genial pen anything that will fill up that blank half hour before breakfast and perhaps strike a harmonious keynote for the day.
 Then give her all the closet and bureau room possible, that she may lose that dreary and unsettled feeling of living in a trunk, and above all don't put her into a damp, unaired bed!
 Having thus provided for her comfort, do not try to entertain" her. Nothing is so annoying as to be constantly made ''compa ny" of, and that hour which calls the hostess to some imperative duty often proves the most enjoyable to tine wearied visitor.
 Let the new conner slip quietly into the family mechanism without being conscious of the least jar or strain; let her feel at all times that she is a comfort rather thar care, and you will have secured her a delightful visit and spared yourself much weariness and worry.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 15 GENTS A WEEK. 50 CENTS A MONTH, S3. % FOR SIX MONTHS, $500 YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
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Boston has had an unsatisfactory expert ence in attempting to float $500, ,OOO of per cent. bonds for park improvements, and it is
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Goods delivered free in West Haven, Westville and Fair Haven.
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Here is hint to ministers. A Gen man paper says that with funnel of thick ma nilla paper about sixteen inches long and six to eight inches wide at the mouth. the smaller end being put into the opening of the receiver, one may talk in whispers through the telephone.
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Dreadful thought! What if marrying by proxy should become popular? Who would be safe?-Boston Herald
 Let Canada and the United States fight it out at long range with codfsh balls,
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MCINTYRE, MAGUIRE & co.
 CONTINUATION OF OUR GIGANTIC SALE Housekeeping Goods and COtt0lS. A Grand List of Bargains
 ALL OUR DEPARTMENTS. READ CAREFULLY EVERY ITEM And compare QUALITY and PRICES with any concern in
A Grand List of Bargains

existence.
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MORNING. AUGUST IT. 1887.

tion of the origin of a physiological peculiarity
 of women is related in Science It has been
 known ever since 1744 that the two sexes ex-
 of breathing; the breathing of males being
 chiefly effected by the diaphragm, that of fe-
 males largely by the costa1 portion of the
 chest. It has been generally supposed that
 this restricted use of the diaphragm in fe-
 males was ia peculiar reservation against the
 period of gestation, when the abdomen can
 not allow of so free descent of the dia- phragm;" but Dr. Mays, of Philadelphia, by a series of careful experiments upon eighty two pure -blooded and half-breed Indian girls, has quite disproved this view, and made it highly probable that the peculiar type of breathing found in our females has been de- veloped by ''the constructing influence of dress around the abdomen" The full- blooded Indian girls were found in every in- stance to possess the strictly abdominal type of breathing, more or less divergence from this type being shown by those of mixed blood.
 The action of the Civil Service comais- sioners in the case of Postmaster Harrity, of Philadelphia, indicates that there isn't going to be much trouble. It is true that of 194 new appointments made by Postmaster Har- rity 192 were of Democrats, but that, the commissioners believe, merely happened so, or if there was any special cause for it, it must be found in the fact that the Phila- delphia papers said the postmaster was ap- pointing only Democrats, and therefore no entered the competitive exami- nations. To make vacancies for these Dem- ocrats the postmaster dismissed as many former clerks and carriers, who, it is pre- stunned, were Republicans. The commission CTS agree that neither the law nor the civil service rules require an official to give cause for dismissing a subordinate, but Commissioners Oberly and Lyman think that the cause might be given and that the rules should be so amended as to require it, but Commissioner Edgerton dissents from that opinion, believing that the power of dismissal ought to be, as it is now, entirely unrestrained
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Wednesday, August IF, 1887
NICARAGUA Vs. PANAMA.

De Lesseps is a brave old mar, and he has fought hard for the Panama canal, but it is now evident that he will not do what he promised to do in the time he named, and it is becoming more and more doubtful that he ever will. If he does the canal may not be very valuable. It will not be if those inter- ested in the Nicaragua canal carry out their present plans.
 Engineer A. G. Menocal, who has spent the last fifteen years in studying the feasibil- ity of the Nicaragua plan, is enthusiastic over it. The government of Nicaragua has grant ed most liberal concession, including tracts of land, and giving all facilities for the ad- vancement of the canal. The concession lasts for two hundred years. As guarantee of good faith on the part of the company the government asked that $100, 900 be furnished, to be forfeited in the event of the company failing to do what it proposes. This was to be furnished within sixty days, and within that time the money was handed over to the agent of the Ntcaraguan government The company is prepared to send it's engineers to Nicaragua as soon as the weather will per mit-that is, about the 1st of December, when the rainy season ends-and at that time the preparatory work will be actively begun. The means are at hand to put ten engineers, each with large party, on the ground by December 1, and the work of minute surveying will then begin along the whole line
 MT. Menocal declares that at the outside calculation the canal can be in working order within six years from the completion of the preparatory work, and it's cost will be from $6O,000, 900, to $70, ,0OO, 900. The canal will be only forty miles long, although the dis tance across the country from ocean to ocean Is one hundred and seventy miles. The rest of the distance will be traversed by lake, river and an artificial lake formed in the valley of the San Francisco river. The canal will be about one hundred and twenty feet wide at the bottom, varying in width at the surface according to the character of the country, but generally about two hundred and eighty eight feet. Its depth at no place will be less than twenty-eight feet, so it will float comfortably any vessel, with the evcep tion of the Great Eastern.
 If the Panama canal is ever finished it's obligations will be in the neighborhood of $500, 1000, ,000. It is evident that it could never compete successfully with the Nicara. pua canal
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RUSTY.

"John," said the wife of Kentucky editor, "your patent combination pocket knife is all rusty-all but the corkscrew part. ."-Wash- ington Critic.
 Ethel, dear," he asked tenderly, "do you believe in love in cottagea" "Yes, indeed, /" she answered enthusiastically, Eff the cottage is at Long Branch. ."-New York Sun. At a wedding dinner-The bride seems pensive. "Are you already thinking of divorce, my dear2" asks the groom jocularly. She, naively, "Oh, not yet. Paris Gaulois. A man recently cut one of his rooster's wings and then gieefully told his neighbors that the bird could not get into his garden on account of his defective few.-Harper's Ba- gar.
 'How did you break that 1ampg' roared MT. Testy. "Just lighted it and that broke it," said his wife; "darkness falls, you know, but light breaks. ."-Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
 A little girl wasn't far wrong when she told her Sunday school teacher, in answer to the question "What is the worst thing about money?" that it was C 'cause we ain't got any. Nashville American.
 Alarmed pedestrian (picking up painter at the foot of a ladder)-''My poor man, are you hurt muchs' Painter-"On1y three ribs broken. But went down with colors fly ing, didn't Philadelphia Call.
 
 am sorry that you took hold of it." Young lawyer-"Oh, it's all right We'll win.'' "Haye you arranged for the witnessesa' "No; but have arranged for the jury."- Omaha World.
 The newspapers are discussing the question who controls car window-the person who sits beside it or the person who sits behind it. In most cases nobody controls the win dow. Even the brakeman and conductor can't manage it-IoWell Courier
 A certain learned judge, when attempting to be clear, is at times rather perplexing. My good woman, he is reported to have said to witness ''you must give an answer, in the fewest possible words of which you are capable, to the plain and simple ques- tion whether when you were crossing the street with the baby on your arm and the omnibus was coming down on the right side and the cab on the left and the brougham was trying to pass the omnibus, you saw the plaintiff between the brougham and the cab, or whether and when you saw him at all and whether or not near the brougham, cab and omnibus, or either, or any two, and which of them respectively-or how was it2''
 "Poor man !" exclaimed Mrs. Bills, who was reading the paper; "did you see this item, George, about the tramp who was sup bling into the creek?" "Yes, I saw it," re- piled MT. Bills. 'FI have no doubt from the description" said Mrs. B., ''that he was the same man that called here yesterday morning to ask for cold victuals. I gave him a plate of biscuits" "Were they some of the biscuits you made for breakfast yester- daya' s'Yes, and he seemed very grateful He ate the whole batch" Poor fellow" rejoined the unfeeling Bills, Eff the coro- ner's jury had known of that it would have made great difference in their verdict."- Chicago Tribune.
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ALWAYS ON THE 60.
Why Tra1nmen Stick to a Hard and Very Uncomfortable, Dangerous Lifeline Excitement Pays for AIl- F1frtatfons and Tips.

Why Tra1nmen Stick to a Hard and
 Very Uncomfortable, Dangerous
 Lifeline Excitement Pays for AIl-
 Ffrtations and Tips.
 From the Buffalo Newsl
 'We see many strange things in our life and many strange people. But for that ex- istence would be burden and you could not get man to run on the road at all, for the pay is not great and the danger is not a lit tle."
 He was trainman one of the many road that run out of Buffalo, and had just finished his supper and was quietly enjoying cigar. The girl next door was trying to strike up filtration with him, but in vain. Nor did she show poor taste. He was young, tall, fair looking, with an athletic frame and a pair of honest, fearless blue eyes that com pelled respect from men and won the hearts of women. He was in talkatiye mood and went on, pausing now and then to keep his cigar going.
 CT don't know why it is, but I am never contented except when am on the move. I may be dull and depressed when down town, but the moment the conductor calls out All aboardr and the engine pulls out I forget everything except the hustle, rumble, 1oar and the swaying of the train. The rapid motion has an exhilarating effect, and as the trees and fields whiz by my blood begins to jingle.
 fThen 8 man makes friends at every stop ping place, and there is always someone to say good day and goodbye at every sta tion. You are always on the go and there are always old friends and new faces at every turn. I like the life and it is the excitement in it that keeps so many men tied down to it. You must not think we could not do better. Why, have quit two or three times and did well too, but could not stand it and so l returned to the life again. Promo tion is slow but sure, and each of us knows that conductors punch will surely come in time if we do our duty. It is all very we'll to talk of soulless corporations, but rail- road appreciates an honest employe just as much, if not more, than 8 bank president does an efficient clerk.
 'I don't know why it is, he went on after few vigorous puffs, fbus the brakeman-or trainman as he is now caIled-is 8 greater masher than the conductor. The shy coun- try lass, the coy village maid and the aristo- cratic city lady all take to us. One reason is we are more obliging. We have few of the cares that annoy the conductor; people are not trying to beat us and we have no spot ters watching us. I suppose it is necessary to put spies on the conductors, but I think class they are honest. Now and then one yields to pitiful tale, but he is too good judge of human nature to be deceived oft en. often think that if the officials had to be tried and tempted as the conductors they would make as many mistakes of the head and heart will give you one pointer-if you wish to get 8 ride make your talk to the conductor before you board the train. He will do just as much for you then as he wiB1 when you strike him on board. A man Tno
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5c Per Yard.
SPECIAL NOTICE.

In order to give our employees a half holiday during the dog days" we shall close our store on ALL FRIDAYS IN AUGUST at I2 noon.
 Tn order to induce our GUS toners and the public generally to make their Friday purchases in the forenoon, we shall offer SPECIAL BARGAINS on Fridays from 8 to 12.
 On every counter throughout the store will be found a bar gain that will be worth their at- tention. Please remember on Fridays only from 8 to 12 will these Special Bargains be found; also that the store will be closed during the Friday Afternoons of August.
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Notice

we cannot accept anonymous return rejected communications. In all cases the name of the writer will be required not for publication but ss guarantee of good faith
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 Obituary notices, in prose or verse; Is cents per line Notices of Births, Marriages. Deaths and fu- nerals, 25 cts each Local Notices 20 cts per line
 Advertisements second page one price and a half.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own imme diate business, Gall matter to be unobjectionabIe) and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let For Sale. etc.
 Special rates furnished application for contracts covering considerable length of time, or large space.
 Yearly advertisements at the following rates: One square, one year, $40: two souares one year gro; three squares, one year, $t00.
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Care for fife chHdren

Children feel the debility of the changing seasons, even more than adults, and they be- come cross, peeVish, and uncomfortable. The blood should be cleansed and the system inyigorated by the use of Hoods Sarsaparllla.
 "Last Spring my two children were yacci- mated. Soon after, they broke all out with rum ming sores, so dreadful thought should lose them. Hoods Sarsaparilla cured them con- pletely; and they have been healthy ever since. do feel that Hoods Sarsaparilla saved my children to me.' MRS. c. L. THOMPSON, West Warren, Mass.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE C1rY. 15 CENTS WEEK, 50 CENTS MONTH, 800 FOR SIX MONTHS, $500 YEAR. THE SAME TERMS By MAIL.
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0Iisce11 11a11ent1s.
GRATEFUL-CoMFoRTING. EPPS'S COCOA.
BREAKFAST.

By thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutri tion nd by careful application of the fine proper ties of wellselected Cocoa ME EpPs has provided @ craze which may save us many heavy doctors bills It is by the judcous of such articles Of diet that a constitution may be gradually builtup until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hun dreds of subtlemaladies are floating aroundGs ready to attack wherever there is aweak point. We may escape many fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and properly nourlsheo rame.'-Civil Service Gazette
 Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in half pound tins by Grocers. labeled thus:
 JAMES EPPS Go. Homeopathic Chemists,
 m12tIRwtf London England.
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Forty years ago there died in Padua the physician and chemist, G. B. Massedag1ia, who had succeeded in petrifying several ani- nal bodies, which he bequeathed to the University museum. To his will he had attached sealed letter containing the secret of his method of petrifaetion, which was only to be divu!ged to his legal heirs Until recently all search for the heirs of Dr. Masse- daglia remained fruitless, but they have at last been discovered, and are offered very large sums for the secret, which, however, they refuse to disclose for the present.
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VOL. LV.
9rp @nnds.
Last and Best Howe & StetSOl

Offer August 10th the greatest bargains in Wash Dress Goods YET SHOWN BY THEM. We have bought, on account of lateness of season, 4,255 yards Zephyr Ginghams, which we shall offer FOR THE PUR- POSE OF CREATING A SENSATION, at the marvel ous price of
 6 1-4c Per Yard. This lot comprises handsome Hairline Stripes, illuminated, I, ? and 5 thread cluster stripe; also plain colors in ecru, modes, brown, black-all are first quail ty, perfect goods, and offered for fraction of cost of manu- facture.
 Also to close the Summer season the last case of B INCH WIDE CANVAS CLOTHS
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Ginser Ale s1 Per Dozen. -YG are enabled offer this season first-class " and reliabfe Ginger Ale of the celebrated s.Delatour'' naanufacture at $1 per dozen. Com parison solicited with any brand, foreign or do- nestle E E. HALL & SON.,
 mY6 TO Chapel Street
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

There are many wealthy Hebrews in New York city, among them being forty who are worth million or more. Max Veil, who is called the wealthiest, is credited with sS, ,000,- 900.
 A Canadian paper says that of BIO persons asked their opinion as to the annexation of Canada to the United States 800 wished it and no were opposed. Most of them were Nova Scotians and they were almost unani- nous for annexation. In Ontario and Cues it.